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Experimental Economics Workshop on Discrimination and Prejudice

Location
87 Trumbull Street, Room B120
Date
Dec 05, 2025

Friday, December 5, 2025

Topic: Discrimination and Prejudice

Organized by: Maria Kogelnik

The Experimental Economics Workshop is organized twice a year and brings together top scholars to present new research in a smaller venue for workshopping. This first workshop features research on discrimination and prejudice.

Agenda

8:30 - 9:00 am: Breakfast

9:00 - 9:05 am: Welcome remarks

9:05 - 9:40 am: Anticipated Discrimination and Major Choice

  • Louis-Pierre Lepage (Stockholm University), Xiaomeng Li (University of Michigan), Basit Zafar (University of Michigan)

9:40 - 10:15 am: Discrimination, Rejection, and Willingness to Apply: Effects of Blind Hiring Processes

  • Anne Boring (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Katherine Coffman (Harvard University), Dylan Glover (INSEAD), and Maria Jose Gonzalez-Fuentes (ENS de Lyon)

10:15 - 10:35 am: Break

10:35 - 11:10 am: Raising the Bar: The Backlash of Gender Quotas

11:10 - 11:45 am: (Mis-)Understanding Quotas

11:45 am - 12:45 pm: Lunch

12:45 - 1:20 pm: Learning About Outgroups: The Impact of Broad Versus Deep Interactions

  • Arkadev Ghosh (Duke University), Anujit Chakraborty (University of California, Davis), Matt Lowe (University of British Columbia), Gareth Nellis (University of California San Diego)

1:20 - 1:55 pm: Breaking the Bubble - The Determinants and Effects of Cross-partisan Contact

  • Adrian Blattner (Stanford University), Vlasta Rasocha (Stanford University)

1:55 - 2:30 pm: In their Shoes: Empathy through Information

  • Milena Djourelova (University of Southern California), Marianne Andries (University of Southern California), Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago), Thomas Chaney (Sciences Po), Alex Imas (University of Chicago)

2:30 - 2:50 pm: Break

2:50 - 3:25 pm: Perceptions of Racial Gaps, their Causes, and Ways to Reduce Them

  • Matteo F. Ferroni (University of Missouri), Alberto Alesina (Harvard University), Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)

3:25 - 4:00 pm: Restricted Path and Mission Impossible: Gender Views

  • Christine L. Exley (University of Michigan), Joshua T. Dean (University of Chicago), David Klinowski (William & Mary), Muriel Niederle (Stanford University), Heather Sarsons (University of Chicago)

4:00 - 5:00 pm: Social Event